MOSCOW.-Moscow Museum of Modern Art and VICTORIA — the Art of being Contemporary Foundation present a solo exhibition of Andrei Monastyrski, one of the most important Russian contemporary artists, a leader of Moscow conceptualist school. The aesth…
Largest Independent Contemporary Art Award Presents Its Nominees
MOSCOW.- The “Kandinsky Prize” established by “ArtChronika” Foundation in 2007 in the very short period became the independent institute of development, support and motivation of the modern Russian art. It became possible due to the…
Two Russian Curators Plan Appeal Against Art Conviction
MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Two leading Russian art curators found guilty of extremism for an exhibition that angered Orthodox Christians said on Tuesday they would take their case to the European Court of Human Rights. Moscow’s Tagansky court on Monday imposed…
Russian Curators Convicted Today of Inciting Religious Hatred
MOSCOW (AP).- Two Russian curators who
angered the
Russian Orthodox Church with an exhibition that included images of Jesus
Christ
portrayed as Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin were convicted Monday of
inciting
religious hatred and fined, b…
Curators of Mickey Mouse Jesus Exhibition On Trial in Russia
San Francisco –
Andrei Yerofeyev and Yury Samodurov, two Russian curators, who organized
a show
called “Forbidden Art 2006,” are facing possible three-year jail
sentences for
offending the religious beliefs of the Russian Orthodox commun…
Moscow Curators Say their Trial is Political
By: Khristina Narizhnaya, Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP).- Two prominent Moscow art curators facing the prospect of three years in prison for an exhibit that offended the Russian Orthodox Church said on Thursday their trial has been a political sh…
Moscow Curators Face 3 Years in Prison for 2007 Exhibition
MOSCOW (AP).- One painting depicted Jesus Christ as Mickey Mouse, another as Vladimir Lenin. The 2007 exhibit was part of an effort to fight censorship of the arts, but the Russian Orthodox Church was horrified. Now, after a 14-month trial, the two pro…